But by November, the bullying had gotten so bad that a 10-year-old girl at Cooper Elementary School in Vallejo thought there was only one way to end it.

"The night before last, I found a suicide note in her bedroom because of what's going on at school," said the mother of "Jane," a Cooper fifth-grader.

The mother, as well as the parents of another girl, spoke to the Times-Herald last week about the bullying their daughters have been suffering at Cooper -- and what they say is a lack of responsiveness from the school and the Vallejo City Unified School District.

In the Times-Herald interviews, the parents say they believe two brothers at Cooper have been intensely bullying their daughters. The behavior includes verbally harassing the girls, shoving them and making lewd comments and sexually suggestive motions.